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Should the Falcons target Seahawks’ recent cap casualty?

The Seahawks cut safeties Jamal Adams and Quandre Diggs on Tuesday. Should the Falcons be interested in pairing one with Jessie Bates?

The Seattle Seahawks surprised those around the league by moving on from head coach Pete Carroll after 14 seasons. The team replaced Carroll with former Ravens defensive coordinator Mike Macdonald, who’s already made some pretty big changes.

The team released safeties Jamal Adams and Quandre Diggs on Tuesday afternoon. Both players started the last four seasons for the Seahawks and were acquired via trade. Seattle stole Diggs from Detroit for a fifth-round pick in 2019 before giving up the farm to acquire Adams from the Jets in 2020.

Should the Falcons be interested in either player to pair with Jessie Bates at safety in 2024? While we’re not writing off Richie Grant just yet, a veteran strong safety like Adams would have some appeal if the team is going all-in for a playoff spot.

The 28-year-old made three consecutive Pro Bowls from 2018 through 2020 before injuries derailed his next two seasons. If healthy, Adams and Bates would be a formidable duo in the secondary. It’s certainly worth considering at the right price.

As for Diggs, he’s versatile enough to step in but probably less of a fit playing next to Bates. Diggs has played primarily at the free safety spot for the duration of his career and Bates is coming off a career year at the same position in Atlanta.

Analysis: Seahawks rip off the bandaid by cutting Adams, Diggs and Dissly

Together these moves represent a shift towards a more modern approach to roster building

The first significant moves of the 2024 offseason are in for the Seahawks. Today we learned via a pair of reports from Tom Pelissero at NFL Network Seattle is releasing strong safety Jamal Adams, free safety Quandre Diggs and tight end Will Dissly.

While those moves will come with significant dead money attached, together they will save the team a ton of salary cap space this year. Just how much space are the Seahawks saving, exactly? It depends on when you ask. According to Spotrac, Diggs and Dissly are being outright released, which frees up a little under $18 million in cap room immediately. Meanwhile, Adams will be designated a post June 1 cut, which means his salary won’t come off trhe books until the next day, when another $16.5 million is freed up.

Together these moves represent a shift towards a more modern approach to roster building. Pete Carroll had his strong points, but investing money at the wrong positions was a problem throughout his tenure controlling the roster. Moving ahead, we expect general manager John Schneider to spend fewer resources at non-premium positions such as safety, tight end, linebacker and especially running back.

Bottom line: while all three are fine players in their own right, they had bad contracts for their respective positions and getting those deals off the books will make this team more competitive in the long run.

Update:

It appears Adams is not going to be a post June 1 cut, after all. According to Brady Henderson at ESPN, he’s also being released outright.

That means Seattle will eat Adams’ entire dead money hit this year, which is over $20 million. The move saves a little over $6 million in cap space for 2024, according to Over the Cap.

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Seahawks also releasing tight end Will Dissly for cap savings

This move saves the Seahawks another $7 million in cap room.

When it rains it pours. That’s especially true in the Pacific Northwest, where a quiet offseason of Seahawks news has suddenly burst with a bunch of roster moves. Only moments ago we learned that the Seahawks were releasing both strong safety Jamal Adams and free safety Quandre Diggs, freeing up some $27.5 million in cap space for the 2024 season.

Just minutes later, Tom Pelissero at NFL Network followed up with another reported roster cut for Seattle: tight end Will Dissly. This move saves the Seahawks another $7 million in cap room.

Dissly was a fan favorite in Seattle, having previously played for the University of Washington in college. All together he appeared in 72 games with the Seahawks, totaling a little over 1,400 yards and 13 touchdowns.

The good news for Dissly is that he’s entering a very weak market for tight ends and might be able to earn even more as a free agent than he would have in Seattle for 2024. Yesterday ESPN reported that even third-string tight end Colby Parkinson is getting some buzz as a sleeper free agent.

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According to a report by Tom Pelissero at NFL Network, the Seattle Seahawks are releasing safeties Jamal Adams and Quandre Diggs.

According to a report by Tom Pelissero at NFL Network, the Seattle Seahawks are releasing safeties Jamal Adams and Quandre Diggs. The moves will save the team some $27.5 million in cap space for the 2024 season. They will also come with a couple of sizable dead cap charges.

Due to injuries and struggles on the field after the 2020 season, cutting Adams had been anticipated for a long time. Meanwhile, Diggs had performed much better compared to Adams but was still coming off a poor 2023 campaign. His contract also made him a good candidate to be a salary cap casualty this year.

Looking ahead, the top of Seattle’s safety depth chart should have Pro Bowler Julian Love slated to start along with second-year safety Jerrick Reed II, who was a special teams standout as a rookie but didn’t see much time on defense.

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This current group is the most talented and colorful that the team has fielded since they were at their peak.

The Seahawks of modern times may not be quite as good as the Legion of Boom rosters of old. However, this current group is the most talented and colorful that the team has fielded since they were at their peak from 2012-2015. The one carry-over from the glory days is middle linebacker Bobby Wagner, who returned to Seattle this past season after spending one year with the Rams.

Wagner led a defense that was a mix of young risers like Devon Witherspoon and Riq Woolen, as well as seasoned veterans such as himself and Jarran Reed. Another key vet is free safety Quandre Diggs, who has a well-earned title of biggest trash-talker on the team. Just watch Wagner’s response when he was asked who the Seahawks’ biggest hater is at the annual NFL Honors awards show last weekend.

Funny. As for the 2024 season, Wagner is about to become a free agent so the team has a decision to make there. However, if Bobby is willing to stay for anything remotely near what he did this past season then it’s an easy call to bring him back.

As for Diggs, his contract makes him a good candidate to either get cut or be asked to agree to a restructured deal. We should see GM John Schneider starting to make these kinds of decisions soon.

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Former Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll is undoubtedly a future Hall of Famer, as new head coach Mike Macdonald told reporters in his introductory press conference last week. Whether or not Carroll sticks around for his as-yet unnamed advisor role remains to be seen. One thing we do know for sure is that he will no longer be making the team’s personnel decisions. That is now general manager John Schneider’s realm, exclusively.

One thing Carroll often mismanaged over the years was cap spending relative to positional value. This chart from Ben Baldwin shows how distorted the picture is going into the 2024 offseason.

On defense, the greatest and worst expense is at safety. While there’s nothing wrong with fielding a strong safety room, the Seahawks are spending way more than reasonable, especially considering the production they got from Jamal Adams and Quandre Diggs in 2023. Both might be cap casualties in the coming weeks, but at the very least we can expect Adams to get cut and Diggs to do a contract restructure.

Offensively, spending big at wide receiver is a good thing in the modern NFL and Seattle’s top three at the position are as strong as any team’s. The real issue on this side of the ball is the relative lack of investment in the offensive line, which was the cheapest unit in the league this year by a significant margin. Ideally, over the coming years the bars on the right side of that graph will grow, but they may need a rookie contract at quarterback in order to make the picture fit.

Given their cap hits, Geno Smith and Dre’Mont Jones are both decent candidates to be traded – but if that’s going to happen it will have to be soon. Both have millions in guaranteed money that will hit the books on Feb. 16.

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At the Pro Bowl the media caught up with the team’s first-time Pro Bowl safety Julian Love. He says he’s excited to see who comes in with Macdonald and carries forward the culture that they have already established. Watch.

Love will be one of the key pieces for Macdonald’s defense, at least for the 2024 NFL season. With both SS Jamal Adams and FS Quandre Diggs being strong candidates to become cap casualties, Love may soon be ascending to the top of the depth chart at his position.

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Quandre Diggs likes these fan-made alternate Seahawks uniform designs

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Last week there was a rumor going around that started on the team’s Reddit page that the Seahawks would be changing their uniforms soon. The idea was to integrate the team’s supremely-popular throwback look that we saw a couple times in 2023 into something a little more modern.

There are all kinds of ideas out there for what they might look like, but free safety Quandre Diggs clearly likes these.

We certainly wouldn’t complain. What do you think?

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Here’s what head coach Pete Carroll, Bobby Wagner, Quandre Diggs, Geno Smith and a few other players had to say after the game.

The Seahawks’ 2023 season came to an end yesterday. One could blame the Bears’ total inability to beat the Packers, but the truth is that they made their own bed, as DK Metcalf told reporters earlier this week. At the end of their last game of the year, we heard more players and coaches taking accountability for how their season ended.

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Vets react to young Seahawks smoking cigars in locker room at season’s end

The Seahawks’ season has been over for about an hour and we already have our first controversy to tweet through.

The Seahawks’ season has been over for about an hour and we already have our first controversy to tweet through.

Observe the reaction of former Seattle punter Jon Ryan to several defensive backs smoking in the locker room following their one-point win over the Cardinals – which wasn’t enough to get them in the playoffs.

Shaking with anger seems a bit of an extreme reaction – even a bit of old man yelling out cloud energy coming from a guy who seemed pretty cool when he was playing.

In any case, some Seahawks players who are still on the team are being more understanding, although still not happy with it. Free safety Quandre Diggs says he gets the celebrating but that veterans expect more.

Bobby Wagner sounded a similar note, attributing it to youth.

Anyway, the new season of True Detective with Jodie Foster starts next Sunday about this time, and it’s supposed to be really good.

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